Legal analysis
The Law on the Protection of Cultural Relics stipulates that any form of underground excavation of cultural relics belongs to the state, and the state will reward them according to their value after handing them in. Don't involve the crime of reselling cultural relics for the time being. The so-called reselling refers to the act of buying and selling cultural relics prohibited by the state for profit. The object of reselling can only be cultural relics prohibited by the state. I don't know what kind of copper coins you are talking about. After the appraisal by the cultural relics appraisal department, I only know that the crime of reselling cultural relics is fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or criminal detention and a fine; If the circumstances are especially serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined. However, some collectors don't know how to define cultural relics or ancient coins in their hands. If you want to sell them yourself, I suggest you keep a low profile to avoid getting into trouble. It is not illegal to buy or sell RMB that has been withdrawn from circulation; Banks only recover the RMB that is about to withdraw, without premium, and do not recover the RMB that has stopped circulating. Renminbi that has stopped circulating can be traded freely in the market. However, the state has turned a blind eye to the regulation that "RMB in circulation is not allowed to be bought or sold". Didn't you see that coins were sold openly in the coin market, and nobody cared?
legal ground
Article 51 of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Protection of Cultural Relics: (1) State-owned cultural relics, except those permitted by the state; (2) Precious cultural relics in non-state-owned collections; (3) Murals, sculptures, building components and other state-owned immovable cultural relics, except those that are removed according to law and do not belong to the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article 20 of this Law and should be collected by cultural relics collection units; (4) Cultural relics whose sources do not conform to the provisions of Article 50 of this Law.